Using deferred dates to manage tasks

- One challenge you'll face…with any task management application…is sorting through the hundreds or thousands of tasks…so you can only see those…that need your immediate attention.…One of the ways you can do this in OmniFocus…is by setting deferred dates for your tasks.…A deferred date is a date and time…upon which a task becomes active.…For example, if you need to change the batteries…in your shrink ray next month,…you shouldn't have to look at that task on your list…between now and then.…Setting a deferred date one month away in OmniFocus…results in that task disappearing from your list…until the designated deferred date.…

That's powerful. Let me show you how to do it.…I've got this one task just labeled…"Piranha Chew Toys."…This task is poorly named.…I'm going to rename it…"Research purchasing piranha chew toys."…Now I'll hit Enter,…and then I'll go ahead and hit the Tab key…and go down to Project.…There's no project assigned so I'll do that as well.…We have a "Piranha Maintenance" project already,…and that is something I would do on the internet.…

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1/21/2016

Learn how to supercharge productivity and master the intricacies of OmniFocus, the popular task manager for Mac OS X. Author David Sparks explores OmniFocus conventions and the app interface, and then dives into capturing tasks in a variety of ways, including writing tasks manually, using Mail Drop to import tasks, harnessing the OmniFocus Clip-o-Tron, and using keyboard shortcuts to speed up data entry.

The course then explains how to best process tasks: setting up projects, establishing contexts and repeating tasks, and using such important features as date deferral, flags, perspectives, and the Forecast view. The course wraps up with a look at acting on and reviewing tasks and projects.